Jake Curtis was a sports writer and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for 27 years and covered college sports most of that time. He was a beat writer for Cal football and basketball in many of those years, covering Mike Pawlawski, Russell White, Tony Gonzalez, Bruce Snyder, Marshawn Lynch, Kyle Boller, Aaron Rodgers and others in football, and Kevin Johnson, Jason Kidd, Sean Lampley, Todd Bozeman and Leon Powe among others in basketball. Jake, a Princeton University graduate, has covered numerous Rose Bowls, BCS national championship games and Final Fours as well as an NBA Finals and a World Cup.